Securing the Safety of Your Business: Hire the Right People II
The resume entails all the skills and knowledge of the applicant while the interview verifies it.
Last week I posted the importance of hiring the right people for the job. Today, you will have some tips on how to screen an applicant.
How to Screen an applicant?
In screening an applicant, you must read through the applicant’s resume and you must conduct interviews. The resume entails all the skills and knowledge of the applicant while the interview verifies it.
Possible Threats during Interview and Screening
1. Gaps in the employment history or the use of “self-employed status”
· It is possible that the applicant is concealing a derogatory record from the past employer. Ask about the “self-employed status” and why there are gaps in the employment history.
2. Inability to remember the names of co-employees or former supervisors
· The Employment history indicated on the resume maybe fake. Your applicant might be lying about the job experiences.
3. Gaps in residence
· The applicant maybe covering up the place of residence that he or she may have a bad record.
4. Lack of job stability
· The applicant may have unsatisfactory working habits. In the interview you may throw questions like why the applicant left the company for just a short span of time or why the applicant always leaves his or her place work.
5. Signs of instability in personal relations
· Your applicant may have anger management issues that may be a threat to the applicant’s future co-workers.
After verifying all what is written on the resume, there is also a need to do Profiling and Personal Investigation. This ensures the character of the applicant, and this is part of the screening process to ensure the company security and protection against any future threats.
Screening an applicant ensures the company’s security and protection against any future threats.
What is profiling?
In Profiling, the responses are being analyzed thru a questionnaire to check the applicant’s reaction to a future critical situation and this is usually done on the second part of the interview.
Check the applicant’s reaction on a particular work related question.
What is Personal Security Investigation?
This is the process of checking the character, reputation, morals and suitability of the applicant to the position. You can do this by doing a background Investigation on the applicant.
What is Background Investigation?
We may have to check the reputation of the applicant by calling the previous employer, the neighbors and the National Bureau of Investigation. We may the use the social media sites like Facebook and Twitter so we can know the true character of the applicant.
As a Manager:What are you going to do now?
You can implement a system of hiring the right people; to save time and money you may hire a Security and Investigation Agency to assists you on the Profiling and Background Investigation of your applicants, since they are the best people for job. You can hire security consultants as they are also experts when it comes to background investigation and profiling.
Once hired make sure that you will take care of your employees and provide them with what they need to get the job done. You must remember that setting up a system of hiring not only protects your business operation but also protects the future of your business.
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